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Showing 1 to 20 of 138 for “"lowlands"”.
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Speleothem Palaeoclimatology in the Maya Lowlands of Northwestern Yucatán, Mexico
The sociopolitical and demographic changes in the Maya civilisation during the Terminal Classic Period (800 – 1000 CE) are increasingly thought to coincide with climate change, specifically drought. Two challenges facing interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between climate and …
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Postcards from the blue heart : landscape change In the Dutch lowlands
The Green Heart is an agricultural area situated in the center of the Randstad, a metropolis in the Western Netherlands. Like the rest of Holland, it is a constructed landscape. The region is facing twin challenges: the need to make room for water as a strategy to deal with climate change, and the …
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Constraining the average fill densities of Mars' lowlands and fluvial erosion of Titan's polar regions.
… highlands and the relatively smooth northern lowlands. The northern lowlands appear smooth because many of the craters in the north have been partially or completely buried beneath volcanic and sedimentary fill of unknown relative proportions. In Chapter 1, we use the Mars Orbiter Laser …
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The journey of the developing sport psychologist -'Navigating the applied lowlands and limitations of our language'
There is a growing body of literature exploring the early development of sport psychology consultants (Collins, Evans-Jones, & O’Connor, 2013; Tod & Bond, 2010). However, there remains limited exploration of the longitudinal development of practitioners, an area which may provide important insights …
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Water Resource Management in the Lowlands of Southern Papua Using a Decision Support System and Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Papua is a developing province of Indonesia. However, when the development is driven by decision making frameworks that are incapable of including the values most important to the indigenous people of the districts, there is the potential to create injustice and inequity for present and future …
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The process of conserving biodiversity: From planning to evaluating conservation actions on private land in the Cape Lowlands, South Africa
… study area was in the critically endangered Cape Lowlands, a conservation priority area in the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. The highly transformed agricultural production landscape is mostly privately owned; formal biodiversity protection is low; and remnants of natural vegetation (< 9% is …
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Reconstructing the long-term history of water quality and availability using fossil diatoms at an agricultural site in the Cape lowlands
… Farm) adjacent the Berg River in the Cape lowlands through fossil diatom analysis of a sediment core (RV3). Diatoms were extracted along the length of the RV3 core, chemically and physically treated to remove unwanted material and then were mounted on a slide to be counted. Twenty abundant …
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Mesoscale Wind and Temperature Changes over Peatlands of the Hudson Bay Lowlands: impacts on the Surface Energy Balance and Net CO2 Exchange
… warming and moisture changes. The Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL) region of Canada is the second largest peat-accumulating complex in the world that is strongly influenced by the cold air masses originating off the Hudson Bay. Recent warming has caused observed changes in the sea ice dynamics and …
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The short-term effect of rehabilitation on ecosystem services in the semi-arid succulent Karoo lowlands and the Little Karoo, South Africa
This study has shown that using active rehabilitation in combination with improved management strategies (e.g. rest from grazing) may induce recovery of certain ecosystem services within practically relevant time scales. However, these benefits might not be tangible for landowners or society as of …
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Recent two-feldspar, Ti-in-biotite, and garnet-biotite geothermometry of the Frontenac terrane and Adirondack Lowlands, Grenville Province, Canada and the United States
… and structural data in the Adirondack Lowlands and into the Frontenac terrane of Ontario with the hypothesis that a shear zone near the St. Lawrence River, the Black Lake Shear Zone (BLSZ), may be a tectonic boundary representing the welding of the Adirondacks onto the rest of the …
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Economic Strategies of Terminal Classic Households in the Northern Maya Lowlands: Multicrafting and Economic Diversification of a Mid- Elite Residential Compound at Xuenkal, Yucatan
… of changes and economic growth in the northern Lowlands during the Terminal Classic (A.D. 800-1000) and Early Postclassic (A.D. 1000-1200) periods (Andrews et al. 2003:151). Although some sites continued to grow, many sites were abandoned or had drastic declines. However, communities that …
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Urban Reclamation in São Paulo
… Within the core of the city, the São Paulo lowlands stand out as a potential regional site to address this major incongruence. This thesis proposes to study the modernization of a landscape, from an undesired floodplain into a crucial component for the functioning of the metropolis. I …
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Bottoms, Hollows, and Flats : making and remaking the lower section of the American city
… estate developers, and speculators made urban lowlands into residential districts nicknamed bottoms, hollows, and flats beginning in the late nineteenth century. I argue that the deliberately incomplete implementation of urban interventions such as sewerage, water supply, and flood protection …
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The implications of fynbos phytogeography for wetland photoassessment
… wetland vegetation across the Cape coastal lowlands (below 200m a.s.l.) was undertaken in the present study to explore the potential to identify aspects of the vegetation that could serve as indicators of the present environmental state within wetlands. The Braun Blanquet approach was …
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Density and Age Distributions of Trees in Upland and Lowland Oldfields 60 Years After Abandonment: The Role of Dispersal
… from the edge increased in either uplands or lowlands. Age of Acer rubrum individuals decreased marginally as distance from the edge increased in the upland sites, but slope of the regression was not significant in the lowlands. Ages of Fagus grandifolia individuals decreased significantly as …
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An environmental history of the Cederberg : changing climate, land use and vegetation patterns
… and land use and landscape changes of the lowlands, midlands and uplands are examined independently. Results show that the Cederberg lowlands have experienced the largest degree of transformation over the course of the 20th century, primarily as a result of the intensification of …
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The salt-makers of Manitoba : a study of the use of the natural saline deposits
… springs and salt flats within the Manitoba Lowlands Saline Waterbelt aa a resource for salt production. Field and archival data identified four groups of people who used the saline springs to make salt: the prehistoric Natives; the early fur traders and explorers; the Metis and the early …
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